> "Murder, She Wrote," by Kera Bolonik:
>
>
http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20031208&s=bolonik
>
> It's a review of Ms. Meaker's HIGHSMITH and Andrew
Wilson's BEAUTIFUL
> SHADOW.
Interesting, but frankly Kera Bolonik cannot be serious if
she/he believes that Highsmith got better and better in her
last years. Ripley Under Water is a truly terrible book -
reverting to a series character in the forlorn hope that it
might start the creative juices flowing - and Gary Fisketjon
was clearly trying to be kind when he suggested that Small G
might work as a YA title. The sad truth seems to me that
Highsmith was terribly blocked in her introverted last
years.
John
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